‘Roar’ is a curiosity (Our grade: C-)

“Roar” has to be one of the most unusual movies ever made. Tippi Hedren and her husband, Noel Marshall, set out to make a movie about lions, tigers, panthers and jaguars and show how they’re really not all that dangerous — that they deserve our respect and protection.

It’s a noble cause. But then Hedren and Marshall and the rest of the cast and crew get bitten or mauled by the animals during filming in California, and the production goes way over budget and takes 11 years to complete.